Gilbert de Clare , Earl of Gloucester& Hertford 
Gilbert de was born about 1180 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. Gilbert de's father was Richard de Clare , MCS, Earl of Hertford and his mother was Amice FitzRobert Countess of Gloucester. His paternal grandparents were Roger de Clare , Earl of Hertford and Maud de St. Hilary; his maternal grandparents were William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of Gloucester and Hawise de Beaumont. He had two sisters named Maud de and Joan de. He was the second oldest of the three children. He died on October 25th, 1230 in Penrose, Brittany, France. He was buried on November 10th, 1230 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England.General Notes
Sir Gilbert de Clare, Magna Charta Surety 1215, b. say 1180, d. Penrose, Brittany 25 Oct 1230, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford; m. as 1st husband 9 Oct 1217, Isabel Marshal. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, who, after the decease of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, the 2nd wife of Isabel, the divorced wife of King John, and in her right Earl of Gloucester, and her own decease, s. p., as also the decease of Almarick D'Evereux, son of the Earl of Evereux by Mabell, the other co-heiress, who likewise succeeded to the Earldom of Gloucester, became Earl of Gloucester, in right of his mother, Amicia, the other co-heiress. This nobleman was amongst the principal barons who took up arms against King John, and was appointed one of the twenty-five chosen to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. In the ensuing reign, still opposing the arbitrary proceedings of the crown, he fought on the side of the barons at Lincoln, and was taken prisoner there by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; but he soon afterwards made his peace. His lordship m. Isabel (who m. after his decease, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, brother of King Henry III), one of the daus., and eventually co-heiress of William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had issue, Richard, his successor; William; Amicia, m. to Baldwin de Redvers, 4th Earl of Devon; Agnes; Isabel, m. to Robert de Brus. The earl d. in 1229 and was s. by his eldest son, Richard de Clare. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.< 1035 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.May 1089 in Priory of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.~ 1036 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.> 1133
- b.1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.1030 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France d.1101 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.1045 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France d.1110 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1050 in Bayeux, Normandy, France d.>Apr 1089 in Lord of Cumberland & Carlisle, England
- b.~ 1070 in Briquessart, Livry, France d.JAN 1128/29 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1054 in Avranches, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1098 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.> 1142
- b.~ 1070 in Crowland & Spalding, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1130
- b.~ 1158 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.<28 Nov 1217
- b.1090 in Harcourt, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1105 in Harcourt, Eure, Normandy, France d.~ 1154 in Field Dalling, Walsingham, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1132 in Burkenham, Norfolk, England d.1173 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1109 in France
- b.~ 1180 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.25 Oct 1230 in Penrose, Brittany, France
- b.1068 in Selby, West Ride Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1070 in England & France
- b.23 Nov 1116 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales
- b.~ 1055 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 MAR 1106/07 in At the battle of Falaise
- b.~ 1094 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1022 in St-Germain-de-Montgomery, Calvados, Normandy, France d.>27 Jul 1094 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (clothed as a monk)
- b.1060 in St-Germain-de-Montgomery, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.1026 in Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France d.02 Dec 1079 in Bures Castle, Eure, Normandy, France (murdered)
- b.1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d.1 JAN 1224/25 in England
- b.~ 1022 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d.~ 1094 in Sturminster Marshal, Dorsetshire, England
- b.~ 1049 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d.05 Jun 1118 in As a monk at Abbey of Preaux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1014 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France d.1081
- b.1104 in Leicestershire, England d.05 Apr 1168 in England
- b.1050 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.18 Oct 1101 in The leader of 1st Crusade died at Tarsus, Cilicie
- b.~ 1081 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1050 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1129 in Leicestershire, England d.24 Apr 1197
- b.1040 in Gael, Brittany, France d.1095 in Exning, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.1078 in Montford de Gael, Brittany, France
- b.1059 in Breteuil, Normandy, France d.1095
- b.1108 in Montford de Gael, Brittany, France
- b.1050 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.18 Oct 1101 in The leader of 1st Crusade died at Tarsus, Cilicie
- b.1075 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1050 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
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Gilbert de and Isabel were married in a religious ceremony on October 9th, 1217 in 1st husband. They had two sons and a daughter, named Richard de, William de and Isabel de.
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Children
Richard de Clare , Earl Gloucester & Hertford
Richard de was born on August 4th, 1222 in Gloucestershire, England. He died at the age of 39 on July 15th, 1262 in John Griol's Manor, Ashenfield, Waltham, Kent, England. He was buried on July 28th, 1262 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Isabel de Clare
Isabel de was born on November 2nd, 1226 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England. She died after July 10th, 1264 in Cleveland, Yorkshire, Scotland.
William de Clare
William de was born on May 18th, 1228 in Gloucestershire, England. He died at the age of 30 on July 23rd, 1258 in Retherford, Berwickshire, Scotland. He was buried in Dureford Abbey, Rogate, Sussex, England.
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